Byelection results: Conservatives win in Cloverdale-Langley City [Video]

LANGLEY, B.C –

In another blow to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, the federal Conservatives have won a byelection in the British Columbia riding of Cloverdale-Langley City.

Tamara Jansen is returning to Ottawa as MP for the riding which she last represented from 2019 to 2021, marking the third seat lost by the governing Liberals in a byelection this year.

Jansen won her seat Monday on the same day Trudeau was in Ottawa facing calls to resign after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland stepped down from cabinet on the day she was to deliver a fall economic statement.

Jansen defeated five other people on the ballot including Liberal candidate Madison Fleischer and Vanessa Sharma, who was representing the NDP.

Cloverdale–Langley City in the Fraser Valley east of Vancouver has see-sawed between the Liberals and Conservatives in recent elections, with Jansen unseating Liberal John Aldag in 2019 before a 2021 rematch saw Aldag return as …